BILL NUMBER: SB 718	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 7, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 6, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senators Leno and Hancock
    (   Coauthor:   Assembly Member  
Dodd   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to add Section 8670.48.4 to the Government Code, relating
to fish and wildlife, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 718, as amended, Leno. Hazardous Materials Response and
Restoration Subaccount.
   Existing law establishes the Oil Spill Response Trust Fund, a
continuously appropriated fund, for, among other purposes, providing
funds to  rescue, treat, rehabilitate, and dispose wildlife
injured by an oil spill.   cover promptly the costs of
response, containment, and cleanup of oil spills into waters of the
state, including damage assessment costs and wildlife rehabilitation.
 Existing law establishes the Hazardous Materials Response and
Restoration Subaccount, a continuously appropriated subaccount in the
Fish and Wildlife Pollution Account in the Fish and Game
Preservation Fund, for, among other purposes, the protection,
preservation, and restoration of fish and wildlife impacted by
discharges of hazardous materials into the environment of the state.
   This bill would authorize the administrator for oil spill response
to loan moneys from the Oil Spill Response Trust Fund to the
Hazardous Materials Response and Restoration Subaccount in an amount,
not to exceed $500,000 annually, necessary to reimburse 
organizations providing  wildlife  rescue and 
rehabilitation  centers   services  for
expenses incurred by rescue and rehabilitation stations for wildlife
injured by  nonoil spill-related events,   spill
events of nonoil materials,  thereby making an appropriation.
The bill would require the administrator to notify the Joint
Legislative Budget Committee of the loan.  The bill would require
the administrator, through a   public process, to develop
and adopt guidelines identifying expenses eligible for reimbursement.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 8670.48.4 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   8670.48.4.  (a) (1) At the discretion of the administrator, moneys
may be loaned from the fund to the Hazardous Materials Response and
Restoration Subaccount, created pursuant to Section 13010 of the Fish
and Game Code, in an amount, not to exceed five hundred thousand
dollars ($500,000) annually, that is necessary to reimburse 
organizations providing  wildlife  rescue and 
rehabilitation  centers   services  for
expenses incurred by rescue and rehabilitation stations for wildlife
injured by  nonoil spill-related events.   spill
events of nonoil materials. 
   (2) The administrator shall notify the Joint Legislative Budget
Committee of any loans made pursuant to paragraph (1) at the time of
the loan. 
   (3) The administrator shall, through a public process, develop and
adopt guidelines identifying expenses eligible for reimbursement
pursuant to paragraph (1). 
   (b) A loan made pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) shall
be  repaid,   repaid no later than 10 years
after the date the loan was made,  with interest at the rate
earned by the Pooled Money Investment Account at the time of the
loan, upon appropriation by the Legislature, from either of the
following:
   (1) Moneys recovered from a party responsible for the 
nonoil spill-related event.   spill event of nonoil
materials. 
   (2) If no responsible party is found, the General Fund.